This paper describes a novel commercially developed tool for supporting efficiency and effectiveness of a digital film production processes. The tool is described as are two alternative user interfaces for it. Approaches to analyzing the effectiveness of the tool prior to its widespread adoption are described and the conclusions from this analysis are illustrated.

The presented software tools have been accomplished in the frame of the Leonardo da Vinci pilot project “Virtual-Electro-Lab”. The aim of the project is developing a complex training system in electrical domain that includes the correlation of the courses, seminars / workshops and testing systems with the virtual & remote experiment elements. It proposes an innovative approach of the teaching m...

MTRANS, a freely available tool for annotating multi-channel speech is presented. This software tool is designed to provide visual and aural display flexibility required for transcribing multi-party conversations; in particular, it eases the analysis of speech overlaps by overlaying waveforms and spectrograms (with controllable transparency), and the mapping from media channels to annotation ti...

The paper focuses on the rapid development of the digital culture and the challenges it imposes to human creativity. It analyses e-learning, digital entertainment, digital art and the issues of creativity and improvisation. It also presents a classification of the levels in the creative structure including hardware and software tools; product developers; creators and end users. Special attentio...

The notion of multiple representations of a system model is becoming more popular, and is a significant motivation behind the drive to integrate system development methods. Some metaCASE tools claim to allow method integration, but typically still make assumptions that impose constraints on the methods integrated, and the way they are integrated. This paper describes a prototype environment for...

Useful automatized translation must be considered in a problem-solving setting, composed of a linguistic environment and a computer environment. We examine the facets of the problem which we believe to be essential, and try to give some paradigms along each of them. Those facets are the linguistic strategy, the programming tools, the treatment of semantics, the computer environment and the type...

While informatics is a well-established discipline in higher education around the world, it is not the case in secondary education, with the exception of a few countries. Generally, what is taught is not informatics as a subject with its own methods, concepts, and principles, but some software tools with the goal that the use is sufficient for students to acquire skills. In addition, an analysi...

There is a lack of ‘explicit education’ of different modes of creativity and different methodologies for initiating creative processes. This is important for not only art practitioners, but specifically for developers of tools that support creative processes. The workshop, titled the “Creating-CreativeProcesses-Workshop”, will demonstrate how a series of short exercises can provide a brief expe...

Organizations and monitoring agencies continue to express concern over software piracy because of the ethical, legal and financial implications of noncompliance. This study focuses on how software license noncompliance is actually a factor in software piracy. Many organizations use a variety of software tools distributed over their workforce and tracking license compliance for turnover, upgrade...

In the practice of maxillofacial surgery, one major challenge is the correct reconstruction of malformed or damaged bone structures of the face. Among those, a rather frequent task is the remodeling of an injured orbit to be symmetrical to the intact one. Here, the main difficulty of this intervention is the necessity to plan the repositioning of bone fragments as to achieve symmetry. In this p...